Martin Dempsey: “the Iraq war remains one of the greatest United States foreign policy mistakes of the last century”

I share alarm about the future of Iraq, and we are developing a full range of options to help stabilize the region.

Under no circumstances should we relieve pressure on Iran relative to ballistic missile capabilities and arms trafficking.

I think Afghanistan is and will remain an anchor point for that pressure.

ISIL would love nothing more than a large presence of United States forces on the ground in Iraq and Syria so that they could have a call to jihad.